Experimental translocation of juvenile water voles in a Scottish lowland metapopulation

Population Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-295

  Fisher, Diana O ^a,b   Lambin, Xavier ^a   Yletyinen, Sonja M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Immigration; Metapopulation dynamics; Social fence; Translocation; Water vole

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMIGRATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; MUSTELID; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; TRANSLOCATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 62949154737     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-008-0122-4     Document Type: Article

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